Boreothamnion M.J.Wynne, 1980

Holotype species: Boreothamnion villosum M.J.Wynne

Original publication and holotype designation: Wynne, M.J. (1980). Boreothamnion (Ceramiaceae, Ceramiales), a new red algal genus from Alaska. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 14: 209-219.

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Description: hallus robust, axis monopodial, irregularly and distichously branched, each cell with 4(3) determinate branchlets in 2 unequal pairs. Each branchlet pinnately or quaternately branched from central rachis. Indeterminate axes corticated except at branch apices with rhizoidal filaments borne on basal cells of determinate branchlets. Cells uninucleate. Gland cells lacking. Sexual plants unknown. Tetrasporangia, with or without stalk cells, tetrahedrally-divided. Boreothamnion shares some features with each of several tribes of Ceramiaceae but, until female reproductive features are known, is tentatively placed in Ptiloteae due to its resemblance to Tokidaea in several features.

Information contributed by: E.M. Wollaston. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2015-01-04 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Comments: Recorded from Amchitka Island, the Aleutians, Alaska, U.S.A.

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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